Words Quotes
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I am Psmith," said the old Etonian reverently. "There is a preliminary P before the name. This, however, is silent. Like the tomb. Compare such words as ptarmigan, psalm, and phthisis.
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When there's no place for the scalpel, words are the surgeon's only tool.
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I took a Logo programming class in fifth grade. Logo is a language specifically designed for the classroom environment. It was basically doodling through words.
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I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people.
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By God's grace, I know Satan very well. If Satan can turn God's Word upside down and pervert the Scriptures, what will he do with my words - or the words of others?
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Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart; Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.
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I love words; I love poetry.
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You don't need words to express feelings.
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Why do you write?' Because I love words and stories so much. Because I would be grief stricken every day of my life if I couldn't write. Because I'm obsessed and compelled. Because I'd be utterly useless at anything else.
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Paris is life-enhancing for all those reasons we know and all those words that have become so banal.
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I have the longing that all writers have for new ears to pour my words into.
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The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.
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There will be people who don't like you or aren't convinced. I'd rather let my work talk than justify in words.
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There are men who astonish and delight, men who instruct and guide. Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.
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My words itch at your ears till you understand them.
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Church was the thing for me. The fellowship and the message that was given and singing in the choir and singing the solos and really listening to the words that you were singing and seeing how it affected people was huge for me.
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I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.
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He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
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In other words, volume trumps calories. We eat the volume we want, not the calories we want.
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To write it down was to put the finishing touch on any event, see what it was, what it meant, what it stood for. To put anything into words was like pouring melted wax on top of cold glasses of jelly, to harden there and preserve and keep what was underneath like new.
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My job is to bring to life the character, not to put the words on the paper.
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I always craft my words to the point where I think and hope they're perfect before I ever begin sketching.
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There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.
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My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.
